Farming Today Episodes Episode guide
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Live exports, River pollution, Rural defibrillators
The government confirms it's considering a ban of live animal exports.
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Dairy Prices, Animal Sentience, Beef to China, Farm floods, Colostrum
As milk processors drop their farmgate prices, are farmers set for another serious trough?
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Scottish Rrural Abattoirs, Farming Without Neonics, Abstraction
Is the shortage of rural abattoirs a threat to Scotland's specialist meat sector?
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Environmental permit fee increases, firewood imports, farm resilience programme
The cost of permits for flood risk management are set to rise by nearly 400 per cent.
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Food safety, water management, cider celebrations
In the wake of another food safety investigation, how confident can we be as consumers?
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Farming Today This Week: Farm diversification
Charlotte Smith finds out about the many ways in which farmers are diversifying.
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Rural social care, Young farmers in Wales, Avian flu, Macbeth tourism, Food & Farming Awards
Rural communities are facing a 'crisis' in social care according to a new report.
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Forestry versus farming in Scotland, Farm bakery
Are plans to boost forestry pushing some Scottish tenants off their farms?
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Vegan-uary and Febru-dairy campaigns, welly business diversification, village halls
We hear from the vegan 'Vegan-uary' and dairy farming 'Febru-dairy' online campaigns.
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Cap on the biggest farm subsidies, subsidies for public good in Switzerland & farm diversification
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside.
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Gene editing; Farm diversification
Should plants which have been gene-edited come under the EU rules on genetic modification?
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Farming Today This Week: Machinery
Charlotte Smith heads out tyre-kicking in Lincolnshire in a farm machinery focus.
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Ammonia emissions, Lamma show, 100 years of Ford tractors
Farms in Northern Ireland are warned to reduce their ammonia emissions.
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Grouse shooting ban; robotic harvesting; the Northern Forest; Scottish tenancy laws.
Could the Ilkley Moore ban on grouse shooting put local wildlife at risk?
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Bird flu, Forestry machinery, Pulse fishing, Train station farm shop.
With the first bird flu cases of 2018 confirmed, just how severe is the threat this year?
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New fines for fly-tipping, Shetland monitor farm, straw shortage, farm machinery
Householders are to face new fines for employing unlicensed waste carriers.
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Machinery, Stilton, BBC Food & Farming Awards
How is the rise of robotics changing the face of British farming?
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Farming Today This Week: Livestock in winter
Sybil Ruscoe finds out about the challenges involved in caring for livestock in winter.
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Plastics on the farm; the truth about chlorinated chicken; winter in the Cairngorms
What could a tax on single-use plastics mean for farmers?
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Trump and trade, Cheese-eating pigs, Green building
Is the USA preparing to play hard-ball with Britain in post-Brexit trade talks?
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Providing 'public goods' on farm, out-wintering cattle, red kites, Martin Clunes
Providing 'public goods' on farm: we hear how it could work.
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Lib Dems on farming post-Brexit, fast-breeding wheat, hare coursing, Scottish silage shortage
Lib Dem Tim Farron criticises the Defra secretary's strategy for the future of farming.
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Devolved farm policy; Livestock in winter
Charlotte Smith asks how farm subsidies will work in devolved areas of the UK after Brexit
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Farming Today This Week: Embracing Change
What do the latest revelations about future UK agricultural policy mean for farmers?
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Reforms to farm subsidy
Michael Gove announces major reforms to the system of farm subsidy after Brexit.
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Oxford Real Farming Conference
Charlotte Smith broadcasts from the 2018 Oxford Real Farming Conference.
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UK agriculture productivity, dairy farmers embracing change, Oxford Farming Conference and walking with alpacas
A new report tells UK farmers to shape-up in order to compete with foreign competitors.
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Embracing change in agriculture, Scottish agriculture promotion, Funny farmer, Oxford Real Farming Conference
As the New Year's resolutions kick in, it is all about 'embracing change' in farming.
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Lord Plumb on Farming in 2018
Caz Graham joins Henry Plumb at home on his Warwickshire farm.
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Farming Today This Week: Farming Today at 80
80 Years of Farming Today told through the sounds and voices of the past.